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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to those who
have in many ways assisted me in completing this task.
To Dr. Franz Boas, of Columbia University, to whom I am not
only indebted for my ethnological training and for many personal
favors, but who has been directly responsible for my being intrusted
with the editing of the present manuscript.
To the late and the present chiefs of the Bureau of American
Ethnology, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and Mr. M. W. Stirling; to the
ethnologists of the bureau, especially to Dr. John R. Swanton; and
to the officers of the Smithsonian Institution.
To the C. R. B. Educational Foundation (Inc.), New York, to whom
I owe the great benefit of two years' study and research in the United
States. I want to thank especially Dr. P. C. Galpin, secretary, and
Mr. Millard K. Shaler, the foundation's representative in Brussels.
To Mrs. Allan Watson, of the Office of Indian Affairs, Washington,
D. C, and to Mr. J. Henderson, superintendent of the Yellowhill
Government Boarding School, as well as to the members of his staff,
especially to Mr. Jessie Lambert.
More than to any other of the white residents in the Cherokee
country I feel indebted to Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Edmunds, jr., teachers
of Big Cove Day School, Ravensford, N. C, who by their cordial
hospitality of the first two weeks and by their repeated proofs of
sympathy during the rest of our stay have greatly facihtated the
field work.
To Mr. Paul C. Standley, of the United States National Museum,
Washington, D. C, I am greatly obhged for the identification of the
botanical specimens, as well as for valuable hints and instructions.
Thanks are due also to Mr. F. W. Hodge, of the Museum of the
American Indian, Heye Foundation, and to Dr. Frank G. Speck, of
the University of Pennsylvania, who both gave me valuable informa-
tion and advice before I started on the trip.
To all of the Cherokee informants with whom I worked I feel a
great debt of gratitude. I especially want to remember W., Del., and
Og., since deceased.
To Margriet Olbrechts, my wife, who cheerfully shared all the joys
and troubles of the trip with me, much credit is due for invaluable
assistance in practical as well as in ethnological matters.
F. M. O.
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